三大住房
幫手？
我们征税、禁止、监管，扼杀了住房建设。政客、评论家以及不建房的学者们将住房问题归咎于“炒房者、外国买家、短期租赁提供商和投机者”，这引发了公众和媒体的讨论。
讽刺的是，加拿大人经常在HGTV上观看许多热门的房屋翻新节目，这些节目由省级和联邦政府的税收抵免补贴。加拿大人也是美国房地产最大的外国买家来源国。想想那些在南方拥有公寓的“雪鸟族”吧。
如今人们发现，数十万套新住房的政治承诺不过是空谈。真相是什么？与每年通过大规模移民吸引到这里的数百万人相比，实际建造的新房数量严重不足，远高于任何一个七国集团国家。
以下是三种已被证明可以解决住房问题的解决方案。
有哪些解决方案？
加快住房审批
更快地批准住房：时间就是金钱。
各国政府一边高谈阔论“加快”审批流程，一边却又出台更多法规，比如“绿色建筑”，导致成本翻倍。加州刚刚冻结了新的建筑规范六年。
强制将市政住房审批时间缩短至几周，而不是几年。审批时间越长，建筑商的（持有）成本就越高， 每年大约增加8%到10% ， 例如抵押贷款利息、年度房产税、保险、专业顾问、人工等等。一些建筑商甚至要为那些在等待拆除和公寓建筑许可的工地上用木板封住、鼠患频发的房屋缴纳“空置房”税。
更多解决方案在这里。
取消租金管制
Remove rent controls (government-set caps on annual rent increases) for new apartments. Alberta has none, meaning higher vacancy rates (more choice) and lower rents. A healthy vacancy rate is 3% or above. National vacancy rates for secured rental apartments (purpose-built) range from about 1% to 2%.
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Quebec and Ontario removed some rent controls. This stimulates new building and helps rental providers keep up with rising property repair costs, insurance premiums & taxes that grossly exceed government rental increase limits.
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Proof? A respected survey of economists on the left and right of political spectrum agree rent controls are destructive. Ninety-three per cent agreed rent controls impact the "quantity and quality of housing" available.
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A Toronto-based public policy analyst studied Sweden's rent control disaster where tenants wait as long as 14 years for an apartment. Assar Lindbeck, Stockholm University economics professor famously noted: “In many cases, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”
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